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Lou from Wi.

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My Son cut the 10.6 cord of red & white oak today.Looks like we are due for rain & snow tonight. We hauled most of the wood up to the top with about 2 1/2 more hours to finish hauling,then its on with the wood splitter about another week or so.The bobcat did a good job so far as did the old 75 f350 that he made the dump work with the old cylinders off the 706 swartz loader. We put in 100 gal of #1 fuel oil for back up heat for the 2 year old Lenox. We been at wood cutting for the past 39 years. Lots of work but O BOY is it warm floor time again .I" m still thinking about trying to build a unit like I saw here on Yt.Bobcat picks up logs,cuts & splits em. My son said the unit to buy would be $24,000,00 +. Sure can"t afford that. Got to wondering, How many folks here on YT heats with wood? any way hope you enjoy the pictures.
LOU
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Son just got a load 11 to 11.5 cord red oak all solid logs on rot or hallow logs $1035.00. should have went to the mill but the market is shi-
 
I burn firewood Split with a 3/PT mounted spliter. A little slow but I am too, at 68, I have a power unit that will run faster but don't use it.
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Gotta enjoy age. SLOW AND STEADY WORKS FOR ME. BET IT DOES FOR YOU TOO. NICE LOOKING RIG!!
PICTURE OF OUR HOME BUILT 30 TON SPLITTER>
LOU
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Hi Marlow. YEP WOOD GOES HERE FOR $850 for 10.6 cord.Picture of complete pile of uncut wood belongs to my daughter.Son is going to help her cut it as soon as we get remaining cut wood hauled up to the top of the drive.
LOU
 
Heat with wood up this way, have oil backup.

Helps to have wooded acreage, and also be a forester/logger. Always have access to free firewood.
 
I heaat with wood, use oil as a back-up. Been cutting wood for 36 years, still use the old McCulloch 1-43 chain saw I bought used in 1975. It'll probably outlast me.
Paul
 
Lou,
Did you check those lengths? I don't think some of that is going to fit in that beautiful spliter you built. I hope it does..........
 
I used wood for the primary heat for the shop for 27 years, but I gave it up and tossed the wood burner this summer. My back doesn't like it any more when I run a chain saw. Also, I switched insurance companies and they'd rather see an "approved" wood burning furnace in a shop where there's flammable fumes. My old 100+ year old furnace didn't quite meet the criteria. Then there's the supply issue cause I just don't have an old grove or woodlot out behind the barn to get woodburner fuel from.

I'm gonna miss the steady heat. Now it'll be a hanging gas heater turning on and off all the time. Jim
 
That skid loader looks a lot like my old Bobcat 722. Is that what it is? They're an awesome machine for work in tight quarters, but definitely not a beginners machine.

Looks like a nice splitting outfit. Keep up the good work.
(By the way, the wheels on the skid loader should be red!)
 
I also heat totally with wood. Have electric heat but it is never turned on. I have a wood furnace in the basement that I put in 20 years ago and have been cutting wood ever since. It is the same process ever year and I kind of look forward to the fall wood getting. I burn yellow locust and we have a lot of it here in Western N. C. The big old trees are dying so it is plentyful but getting a little harder to get out of the mountains after 20 years of finding it. I have a big Case tractor with a 12000 lb. winch with 200 feet of cable that I drag the trees out with. I saw it up and take it too the splitter which has not been moved in 20 years. It is a homemade rig that was designed to split fence rails so the complete rig is 20 ft long. The tires have been flat for years so I just leave it where it is and bring the wood to it. When I am finished there will be a pile of good locust as big as a bus above the splitter. Thats where it lays until I take it to the basement to burn. I haul in a tractor carrier load per week to dry in the basement while I am burning the dry stack I put in the week before. After 20 years I still enjoy the wood getting process. It has kept our 2500 sq ft house very cozy for a long time. Plus the dogs sleep in the furnace room and they really like it. In winter, at around 10 o'clock they are always ready to go to their warm furnace room.
 
I heat my house with wood here in Calif. my house has celing electric heat, which I haven't used for 25 years. I have a free standing antique stove called Round Oak. I have burned many cords in that stove through the years. The best wood we have is eucalyptus, and some oak which sells for around 3-4 hundred a cord. The eucalyptus is free. Stan
 

That's my friend Lou. Always taking the easy way out... When I was a kid, we had to carry the firewood a piece at a time from the woods to the house in 3ft of snow. It was 3 and a half miles uphill both ways....

Good pics though.

Dave
 
Last few years have been at it, heating my basement/garage, it's plenty of work but once you have it stacked up, even if just in the round, I split by hand til I find or built a splitter, don't mind it too much, do some limited dragging of logs, to places I can load, then like you're doing, into my ole f-600 and to the pile near the house, wood has been plentiful and with last years ice storm, I still have quite a bit to gather up, we have a high concentration of black cherry around here, grows like heck too, a great one to burn, though I savor it and try to burn the other stuff first, that old and slightly inefficient, non airtight ashley oval shaped stove, sure sends some heat fast and makes the area comfortable on the coldest of days.
 
We cut truckloads, like that, when I was young
The day I left for the Army was the day my Dad
ordered his oil furnace--because he lost his
Slave Labor !!
 
Right on the mark Billy.! Mothing beats heat from wood. Saying goes"Wood heats two times,once cut =split,2nd time hauling it to the house"
still love beating the oil company"s out of their outragious prices. LOU,
 
Not lazy, Just OLD. !!!lol My pop had a farm in PA.between Cory And Spartenburg.Wood heat there until we moved to Indiana. Dad worked at Cory Glass works. Now I truly do miss the FARM. Have a picture of it, Memories, Cant take em away.
Didnt have the machienery We have now, It's old but kept up. In Indiana heated witrh COAL.
Any way Dave, hope yo get the Rake working, Keep feet and hands Away from Moving Parts. LOL
LOU
 
JRT, Hard to bet a splitter ,where ever it sets.
Cable winch is a good idea. I have one but thought about installing it behind the 706. Son Says NO. lol.
LOU
 
Stan, You sure know you bobcats. Yep It's a 722 I bought from a dealer years ago for $1,200.00
Full of cow Crtap clear up to the seat(Not much seat when we got it. Steamed cleaned it for 3 days,Hooked up the gas tank ,Had a 5 gal one straped above the radiator, Auto Mixed matched tires. What a mis treated machiene.Not that way Now, OLD IS GOOD. Thanks
LOU
 
Close to stone lake.About 75 miles south of Duluth Min. Gets cold up here. Rain today .No wood cutting or hauling.
LOU
 
Good saw, Git One, Son has a 044 Sthil with heated handles. Way to big for me now, Any chain saw is way to much.
LOU
 
Yep we get some wood from the county forrest,right behind the house. The big stuff we order from a logger every year. Just put in a wood furnance in the garage, so now we have to pull stuff from the woods . LOve the Heat.
LOU
 
When I lived near Seattle, the best local wood species was Madrona- grows only near salt water, makes super firewood. Some developer was clearing about a 3 acre patch- cut down all the trees, put up a sign "Free Firewood", figuring he's have a lot less to haul away (he was right!). There was a pretty good patch of Madrona toward the back corner, so I took my Oliver 550 over to yard it out (couldn't get to it with trucks). Several other guys showed up with pickups, everybody wanted the Madrona, so I made them a deal: I'll yard it out, you cut it up- fill my pickup first, then start on your own. Easiest load I ever got- good seat time on Oliver, and never even started my saw. Everybody happy.
 
Hi MIKe. Ya know, there is lots of different trees I havnt heard of and yours is one. I'v cut osage orange ,black walnut beech and most every other kind of trees but havn't run into those you talked of.Bet you wish you could have that loading luck every year!!!lol
Thanks. for the reply
LOU
 
Looks like you've got some good firewood; that oak should be easy to split.

We also have a little red oak on our farm along with several other varieties; post oak, pin oak, and blackjack oak.

There is one wood burning stove in the den and a fireplace in the other den.

Always a welcome smell of burning oak in a fireplace or stove.

Several years ago during an ice storm, the electricity was off for about a week.

My parents moved out the den and cooked on the wood burning stove.

Thanks for sharing your photos with us; very pretty foliage in the background on your farm.
 
Wow!, that is nice looking wood. And what a gift to have a son who will help cut and haul.

I am a bit NW of Minneapolis, where the developers are slashing the he!! out of beautiful wooded areas. So I get all the wood I want free, but I must drag, cut, haul and split mostly by myself. I do have a son who also heats with wood (outdoor boiler) and we sometimes work together making wood. I have a Tarm boiler in walkout bsmt that makes house heat and domestic hot water. I installed it in 1977 and have only used an average of 100 gal of oil (backup) each winter.

I have health problems from Lyme disease, so the firewood is getting harder to make each year. I have always loved the ideas of providing for one's own family needs, seeing the oil companies and the Arabs getting very little from me, and Uncle Sam not getting a piece of this work to put in his pocket. (When you make no $$, you have no tax on it, when you use modern convenience fuels, you earn the $$ first, then U.Sam gets first cut, and then you get to pay the oil robbers with what is left over). That thought process keeps me going even when the body is not willing.

Although there are better burning woods available here, I have unlimited access to Elm that has died from Dutch Elm disease. When split and dried for 1 year, it gives very good heat with enough coals and very little chimney creosote. Oak usually produces more creosote in my boiler and chimney.

I do have a 20 Ton hydraulic splitter that has earned its keep many times over (made in Wisconsin!).

Stay warm, and check the smoke pipe to the chimney as you begin the heating season. Be Safe!

Paul in MN
 
This will be our 23rd year of heating with wood.
Not as fast as I used to be on cutting and splitting but still get the job done.I have a Speco 20 ton splitter sold by TSC stores.I like to try to keep with Locust and Oak but have been known to burn what ever I come across.
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Here is a picture of my wood stove.
I bought this stove from a lady ten years ago
for a $100.she was using it on her patio for a plant stand.It's an Englander double door airtite with a two speed blower it's designed to heat 1500 unobstructed square feet.I blocked off my fireplace and ran a stainless steel liner up the chimney and extended my chimney three feet more with triple wall pipe.It works very well.
We have base board electric heaters for back up but we never use them.
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Hello Lou from WI,
Here is my Little wood pile. You can see my wood splitter in the chopping block.
Guido.
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you'll got more time & energy than I got...every time I've ever been in a house heated by wood it smelled like it was on fire...I heat with LP 1800sq. ft. 2 story house used 60% out of a 500 gal. tank last winter...thats about 300 gal. bought in summer of 08 for $1.09gal..course it doesn't freeze but about 10 or 12 nights here in N.W. Miss....take care ...Kent
 
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